{"id":20173,"date":"2012-01-12T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/snow-showers-might-hit-kent-this-weekend-temperature-to-stay-in-30s\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T04:00:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T11:00:36","slug":"snow-showers-might-hit-kent-this-weekend-temperature-to-stay-in-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/snow-showers-might-hit-kent-this-weekend-temperature-to-stay-in-30s\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow showers might hit Kent this weekend; temperature to stay in 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Snow showers could hit the Kent area Sunday although no significant accumulation is expected based on forecasts issued Thursday, according to the <a title=\"nws\" href=\"http:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/MapClick.php?site=sew&amp;textField1=47.38028&amp;textField2=-122.23738&amp;smap=1\" target=\"_self\">National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Temperatures are expected to reach highs of about 37 degrees with lows of 29 to 31.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A strong cold front is forecast to move through Western Washington later Saturday ushering in a cold air mass which will linger until Monday. Snow levels will drop to near 500 feet Saturday night and potentially to sea-level Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hit and miss showers will develop with a threat of a convergence zone setting up from Snohomish County northward late Saturday night and Sunday, according to the weather service.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a title=\"maas\" href=\"http:\/\/cliffmass.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Cliff Mass in his Weather Blog<\/a> Thursday said:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;It really looks like there will be some lowland snow late Saturday into Sunday&#8230;but not the heavy, widespread variety. It is clear that the mountains will\u00a0 get quite a bit during the next week and that the entire region will go through a much colder period starting later on Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Mass said there could be 2-6 inches over the coastal mountains, 6-12 inches over the Cascades, and several inches over the eastern side of the lowlands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;So the bottom line, a very good chance of some lowland snow, but not a uniform heavy snowfall&#8230;snow in showers and potential for some accumulation in a convergence zone and the higher eastern suburbs,&#8221; Mass said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Here&#8217;s the National Weather Service forecast for Kent from Saturday, Jan. 14 through Wednesday, Jan. 18:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Saturday Night<\/strong>: Rain and snow showers likely. Snow level 3,500 feet lowering to 300 feet. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 34. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent. Little or no snow accumulation expected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Sunday<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 200 feet. Cloudy, with a high near 39. Chance of precipitation is 50 percent Little or no snow accumulation expected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Sunday Night<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 200 feet. Cloudy, with a low around 31.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>M.L.King Day<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 400 feet. Cloudy, with a high near 36.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Monday Night<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 400 feet. Cloudy, with a low around 31.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 600 feet. Cloudy, with a high near 37.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Tuesday Night<\/strong>: A chance of rain showers. Cloudy, with a low around 29.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong>: A chance of rain and snow showers. Snow level 300 feet. Cloudy, with a high near 38.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow showers could hit the Kent area Sunday although no significant accumulation is expected based on forecasts issued Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":20174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20173"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}